Nille, a discount retail chain in Norway, has selected LS
Nav, a retail store application developed as its new software system for 360 stores and 530 point of sale terminals.
LS Retail, the maker of LS Nav, awarded its partner CGI Norway, part of CGI Group Inc. , the implementation and service
contract. CGI
will implement Microsoft Dynamics NAV, LS Nav, as well as software by LS Retail
to manage inventory on mobile devices, according to officials of the companies.
Implementation... Read the full text.

A lot has changed for ISVs recently.
In March, I visited
Microsoft's headquarters. This is something I could only dream of as an ISV as
recently as six years ago. It was always the ERP resellers that ruled supreme. Over
the past two years, this has changed dramatically.
So why the shift?
A new vision for ERPs
We all know that a lot
has changed in Microsoft's portfolio over the past two or three years. The
launch of Microsoft Dynamics 365, and all the subsequent roadmap... Read the full text.

Chris de Visser, North American GM at Sana Commerce joins
the MSDW Podcast to discuss a new report measuring B2B businesses' attitudes
around e-commerce and digital transformation. Among the findings was importance
of customer experience in B2B and companies' attitudes toward investing to
achieve digital transformation. The discussion includes findings from Sana's
report and the b... read more Read the full text.

From this week's
Microsoft Dynamics NAV blogs:
How to find
quickly a difference between G/L Entry and Value Entry transactions
Image analysis
feature in Dynamics NAV
2018
Application of
entries as one of the major concerns of Russian accountants when switching
from local accounting system (1C) to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018
Make your Dynamics NAV solution GDPR compliant
How to find quickly a difference between G/L Entry and Value Entry
transactions
On his... Read the full text.

2017 comes to an end with a Microsoft Dynamics partner
channel in flux and a customer base now keenly aware that their ERP and/or CRM
vendor has only just moved its cloud strategy into a higher gear.
Microsoft just identified its
own business application highlights of 2017 , ranging from the launch of
Talent (and its new modular approach) to a productive Adobe partnership to LinkedIn
integration progress to customer wins.
And the company recently extended a
surprise olive... Read the full text.

Two of the biggest Microsoft Dynamics service providers in
North America, Socius and SBS Group, announced today that they are coming
together to form a new firm, Velosio .
Characterized as a "strategic combination" by the executive
team, Velosio will operate as a single business in 2018 with the full resources
of both companies. The new company will maintain the two firms' reseller
relationships with vendors beyond Microsoft like Sage and Netsuite. In the
Microsoft channel, they... Read the full text.

In this week's Microsoft Dynamics Partner News Roundup:
Park Place Technologies
selects Microsoft Cloud
to transform sales and customer engagement
TRIMIT and Prodware UK announce
partnership to help companies solve the issue of make to order and
customized products using Microsoft Dynamics
Certified EDI for Microsoft
Dynamics NAV 2018
available from Data
Masons
Edgewater Fullscope
announces partnership with Concep to offer path to build stronger high value
relationships... Read the full text.

Perhaps 2017 will be the year that Dynamics NAV partners
remembers as "coming in like a lamb" (a skittish prey animal), but out like a
lion.
Between Dynamics NAV 2018 and
Dynamics 365 "Tenerife" ,
NAV partners step into 2018 with a solid foundation for their business plans. Programming
advances like Extensions 2.0 will ease development, while advanced integrations
with Office 365, Power BI and LinkedIn (to name just a few improvements) extend
NAV utility.
One message became... Read the full text.

Beginning January 1, 2018,
Microsoft will no longer support its Payment Services for Microsoft Dynamics
ERP. According to Microsoft Dynamics Community , Payment Services will be discontinued for any versions of
Microsoft Dynamics AX, NAV, GP, RMS, POS 2009, and Office Accounting.
Users of these Payment Services
will not be able to process credit card or debit card transactions after
December 31, 2017.
Microsoft Payment Services is
an online payment solution that connects Dynamics... Read the full text.